Apparatus for raising- water prom wells



ELHANAAN PUFFER, OF OXFORD, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR RAISING WATER FROM WELLS, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,912, dated Gctober 25, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELHANAAN PUrrER, of Oxford, in the county of Ohenango and State of New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Drawing lVater from ldfells; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specification, Figure 1 being a top view of said apparatus; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. 3, a section in the line 0a, of Fig. l; and Fig. 4, a section of a portion of said apparatus, in the line y, y, of Fig. l.

Similar letters indicate like parts in each drawing.

The supporting frame and curbing of my improved water-drawing apparatus, may be formed of any suitable materials and in any suitable mechanical manner. The accompanying drawings represent a frame composed of the four corner posts 1', the curbing planks s, the pair of capping-beams p, and the breast-plank g; the said curbing planks being secured to the lower portions of the corner posts, the beams p, p, capping the right and left hand pairs of said corner posts, and the breast-plank g, being secured to the said beams, near to their front ends.

The bucket O, of my improved waterdrawing apparatus is elevated, the water is discharged therefrom, and it is again lowered into the well, in the following manner; viz; the crank-shaft B, which receives the windlass-roller A, works in the journal-boxes m, m', that are secured to the cap-beams p, p. The windlass-roller A, can be turned freely around the crank-shaft, when not clutched thereto by means of a lengthwise movement of said roller. A lengthwise movement of the said windlass-roller A, upon the crankshaft, may be effected by means of the lever c, which is pivoted to the breast-plank Q, and whose forked end embraces the radiating edge of the clutch-plate Y), which is secured to the right-hand end of said windlass-roller. When moved to the right, the teeth on the face of the clutch plate are thrown into connection with corresponding teeth on the inner face of the ratchet-wheel c, which is secured to the right hand end of the crank-shaft. A metallic head secured to the left-hand end of the windlass-roller, has an annular central projection n, that can be pressed with such a degree of force against the inner face of the journal-box m,

-theV connecting medium between the bucket and the bottom of the central guiding groove a, in the windlass-roller A. The said strap vis connected to the bucket, by means of the straight rod t, which passes across the center of its mouth and is permanently secured in the sides thereof.

The orifice in the bottom of the bucket (Q) immediately over the discharging spout fv, of said bucket, is covered by the hinged valve j; the lever 7L, which is pivoted to the rear edge of the mouth of the bucket, has its inner end connected to the aforesaid valve fu, by means of the rod 'c'. The outer end of the bucket-lever 7L, is of a hook-shape, and as the bucket is elevated into the well-curb, the hook-end of said lever will take hold of the rod Z, which passes across the well-curb, and by so doing, it causes the upward movement .of the bucket to throw forward the bottom of the same and thereby places its discharging spout o, within the mouth of the discharging spout k, of the well-curb, at the same instant that the valve fv, will be lifted for the discharge of the water from said bucket out through the said discharging spouts into any vessel that may be ready to receive it; which operation is clearly represented by Fig. 3, of the drawings.

The spring-pawl cl, which works upon the face of the ratchet-wheel c, prevents the crank-shaft B, from ever turning in a reverse direction. The arrangement of parts which prevents the necessity of ever giving a reverse movement to the crank-shaft, is

one of the important features of this inventhe well curb of said apparatus', to be simply large enough to allow the bucket to pass freely up into the same.

Having thus fully described my improved apparatus for drawing water from wells, &c., what/I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Producing and controlling the movements of the windlass-roller A, upon and with its actuating shaft B, in such a manner as to prevent the necessity of ever imparting a reverse rotary movement to the windlass-shaft, while operating said apparatus, and by means substantially the same as those herein represented and described.

2. I also claim combining the valve y',

which closes the discharging aperture in the bottom of the bucket, (0,) with the inner end of the lever @which is pivoted to the after edge of the mouth of said bucket, when a rod Z, or the equivalent of the same, is so situated within the curb, as to be taken hold of by the hook-sha ed outer end of said lever just before the bucket reaches its highest position, for the purpose of causing the further upward movement of said bucket to throw forward its bottom and discharge its contents substantially as herein set forth.

The above specification of m improved apparatus for raising water rom wells, signed and witnessed this 18th day of August ELHANAAN PUFFER. Witnesses:

HORACE PACKER, ROBERT A. STANTON. 

